Great product, If you can figure it out. I can’t believe when you buy a product you don’t get instructions with it. How does the compansy expect repeat business if you don’t know how to use their product.

Amazon’s advertising is misleading by offering a $20 mail-in rebate. Actually the rebate is for people who previously own an Adobe product. When I tried to conact Amazon by phone at 1-800-940-1298 (customer support) I was only offered to check on rebate submission status, not an actual agent, then it hangs up if you don’t make a choice. Also I tried to fill out the online form to ask customer service for help and the dropdown menu for choosing a product doesn’t work so it never lets you submit your question. I am very dissatisfied with Amazon business ethics, much less the actual product. Now on to the product. I was informed by an article in the Popular Photography magazine,volume 73 – No.4 (April 2009) that Elements 7 works with RAW imaging. It doesn’t according to the Adobe Element 7 Organizer. I contacted Adobe and was also told that it doesn’t. I was told by Adobe that if you want to work with RAW format images, you must purchase Lightroom 2 or CS4. I have friends that say Element 2 and 6 work fine with RAW images. Don’t buy anything from Amazon if you think there might be a problem because there is no way of actually talking to a customer service representative. Don’t buy an Adobe product unless you’re absolutely sure it will do what you want it to do. Don’t believe everything you read in photography magazines, some editors are uneducated.

My pictures usually come out pretty good, so don’t usually edit my pictures a lot. However, for the occasional red eye this version does a much better job of fixing it with just a simple mouse click (compared to my previous version 2.0). Light level fixes are very easy, I like to use the ‘levels’ control for this type of adjustment. Another thing fun to do is to generate black and white pictures. Photos taken in good lighting usually will have no issues, but in poor lighting, the ‘despeckle’ function (under the filter->noise menu) is great to remove grains from the pictures. Definitely recommend this program for anybody with digital photos to fix up.

I was forced to buy this so called upgrade because Adobe refuses to issue a RAW fix for the Canon G10 for my Photoshop Elements 5.0. They have issued a RAW conversion file but only for versions 6.0 and 7.0. So they are adopting the Microsoft approach. My next computer will be an Apple and it will be goodbye and good riddance to Microsoft and Adobe.

I bought this for my wife. She used it for a college photography class. This version of photoshop is actually an upgarde from the one she learned on. It is a very good product.

I upgraded from Photoshop Elements 3 to 7 when I switched from XP to Vista, and 3 no longer worked. I am generally pleased. It is nice to have a package which includes both editing and organization. With 3, I had to use Photoshop Album for organization.

I ordered this product as an upgrade for my Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 program. This is an improvement over the older program and one I would recommend to anyone who is starting out with digital photography. I like the more eye-friendly editing page. Icons are easier to read. More room is used for the actual work space for editing. There are some pitfalls, if they can be seen as pitfalls. Elements 7 requires more memory. Elements 7 takes up 383MB whereas my Elements 2 takes up only 88MB. People with older computers should take this into consideration; for owners of newer systems this should not be a problem. (Microsoft Vista, for instance, takes over 4000MB). I enjoy the added features listed in the quick-fix pulldowns: sky editing, erase features and other useful enhancements. I am more of a photojournalist rather than an artist and don’t need some of the features. However, I do enjoy the quicker availabilty of these options. The skin tones come out looking more natural than on my older Photoshop version and I don’t have to do as many steps to achieve that natural look. One thing about Photoshop, though, that may irritate some people is that the owners manual that comes with the product requires thorough familiarity. The icons alone may not explain well enough how the step-by-step options work. For new owners of this system I highly recommend you read this manual from cover to cover and then practice some of the features. Those with older programs this is easier done as the layouts haven’t changed much from older versions. Users of Elements 7 may find an additional purchase of an “Idiot’s Guide” book to be more helpful than the enclosed manual. I would recommend this program for beginners and those looking for a good, basic, affordable photo editing program.

Great for the weekend warrior shutter bug! And I’m also guessing that armature photographer will love it too! Best though to get a book that will walk you though all the features if this is your first serious photo software.

This Photo Elements did not work correctly and was very difficult to use and I had to return it. I understand Photo Elements 6 is a better version.

This is the best photo program for the money Period! What do the Pro’s use? You cannot go wrong with this software. Don’t waste time trying others,, Buy It!

ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 7 I’m so glad I purchased the Adobe Photoshop Elements 7. This is the first picture I have edited & printed from Photoshop 7. I am taking a class on it through Senior Net. I still have lots to learn about it but am looking forward to it. Grandma Char from Peoria, IL

Honestly I was hesitant to purchase this version of photoshop because in previous jobs I’ve held, they have had full blown CS versions and I thought I would really be missing out. So far, as a web developer, I have not missed any features other than paths, and I can get by without those for what I do. If you’re looking for an introductory way into the Photoshop family, this is it!

I have Adobe Production Pro with all the bells and whistles of Photoshop. For quickie changes or mods to photos, photo objects or even clips (cartoons usually) I call up elements, do what is required, save and minimize again. Elements can do so much but is really easy to use, especiall if you just want to adjust a photo which is too light, too dark, pale color or you want to clip part of it out. For ease of use and capabilities I give it a five.

This is a really hard package to use. It is not intuitive. The help is poor. The screen print is very tiny. Unfortunately, it is the only package out there for the Vista operating system.

Prior to purchasing Elements 7, I was using Elements 5 and before that 3.0. Over the years I’ve also used the usual assortment of editing software programs and all have features I like but none had or have all the features I’d like to use in one program. Elements 7 comes the closest. Reading the negative comments here about Version 7, I hesitated before proceeding to checkout. Instead, I took advantage of Adobe’s free 30 trial. What I found, subjectively, was faster loading and faster edit processing. With Version 5, anything over 20 photos would cause my computer to creep and the program to crash frequently. Version 7, on the same machine, is much faster loading and processing -I’ve done over 60 photos at one time (average size 3.5 MB) – no crashes and acceptable speed – my computer has 2GB RAM which I’ll be upgrading shortly to 4 which should improve speed even more – 2cpu 32 bit Vista at 1.80GHz. Reason for 4 stars and not 5? Version 5 gives a count of the number of photos open – Version 7 doesn’t (or I haven’t found it yet but it’s not on the Edit page to my knowledge) I did find the count on V.5 very useful. One wonders why a program upgrade deletes features found in the previous version. Neverthless, faith in Elements 7 has caused me to uninstall all other photo processing software (though I do retain the original program discs in case of need) I would buy a book to learn Version 7 – I did and it’s already saved me quite a bit of time for how-to look-ups. I’m not recommending my book, though it seems fine, but it’s the only one I’ve read or used and that’s unfair to the many books out there on this subject. I’ve ordered Essentials 2 as a companion program to Elements 7 and will report on it when it arrives and I’ve used it for a while. Do I recommend Elements 7 to friends and others? Yep!

I used the Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 for a long time before finally taking the plunge to buy this version, a lot of nice features within plus able to open and edit RAW files is a plus. I had thought of getting the more expensive CSversions but too costly for just an hobby type photographer, this works very nice! The one thing it does doe is reach to the internet and while I am at work our firewall makes it take a LONG time to start up, so I usually unplug my internet connection and then it fires right up and starts. Otherwise no other problems, running on a slower computer than recommended but it seems to work fine, so don’t let that stop you from buying. My computer has XP and a 1.86 processor and 1 gig of ram. G2

Adobe Photoshop Elements 7 is great for novice enthusiasts and has some editing capabilities. I don’t use the organizer or anything else, just the editing and I find it great. You do need a fast computer otherwise it takes a while to load and edit multiple batches. It is really simpler than people say, just download the demo from adobe and they send you tips for the 30 days that the trial lasts helping you figure out the features. There is also a little exploring and thinking but most of it is simple. Would definitely recommend.

Very good product to play and also work semi professionally with your pictures. There are many tutorials available both on the internet and on the libraries shelves to explain in depth the functions of this product. One book I’d recommend containing a lot of examples and explenations is called “how to cheat in photoshop elements 7″ by David Asch and Steve Caplin.

I’m so dissappointed with this program. I have been using Picasa 3 which is free and thought that this would be a step up. It probably is a step up if you could figure out how to operate it. I am so frustrated with it I am ready to pitch the whole thing. There aren’t enough instructions with this program to even get started. What a mess. How do they expect you to use this program with no instructions. I fiddled with it for 4 days now and haven’t accomplished a thing. With Picasa 3 it was easy. This thing is slow and unresponsive. So slow that you think the computer is froze up.Adobe should have paid me to try this thing. I’m giving it one star because there is no option for 0 stars. Pathetic.

I am happy with the program. Best part is that it is in English so I can understand the directions. I am still getting used to it, but am happy.

This program is a good way to enhance or correct your images, and an excellent entry into the Photoshop products.

I have not had exp. with any earlier version of this product. So far I find it to easy to use, helpful in editing my photos and getting that just right look that I can’t quite get from just the photo. I have not had stability problems, or any crashes. Its just decent basic photo editor. With a few quirks. Give it a shot not too expensive and does mostly what normal people need.

The book lives up to its name-Classroom in a Book -the official training workbook from Adobe Systems. Sooo – it’s great if you want to learn this much detail & too detailed to go through if you just want to learn the basics.

I bought version 7.0 to upgrade my version 4.0 which I love. Version 7.0 brings nothing new and actually deletes many features that are very useful (such as displaying a slide for longer than 6 seconds and enabling random slide motion). All slides are the same motion sequence in version 8.0. Music is also very difficult to get levels right in 8.0 and I have spent literally hours trying to get the audio right when in 4.0 I could do it in seconds. Don’t buy this version.

I bought PSE 7 as a novice to Adobe Photoshop products. Much to my suprise, guess what NO MANUAL!!! Almost $100 software product and absolutely no guidance on how to use it. After thumbing through the multiple advertisements for me to join their website, I finally found the link to the online help/manual. What a depressing attempt at providing instruction. The online manual/help is overly wordy, overly praising of the product, and provides very little actual step by step guidance. It seems that Adobe almost makes the assumption that everyone who buys PSE 7 is upgrading from a previous version and understands how everything works. Now, granted I was a novice to PSE software, but not computer illiterate, so I surfed blogs, online tutorials, etc…and have found out how to use many of the very powerful features of the software. However, this has taken several hours of painstaking searches and rifling through unwanted junk to get to the meat of the matter. Bottom line…great software, very powerful editing and particularly useful organization tools!!! On the con side…you absolutely NEED a manual as a novice to Photoshop and the online one provided by Adobe is a bunch of Junk, please heed this advice. I ended up purchasing a book from the “Missing Manual” series, which I’m hoping will help.